Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [be] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 2 | It did not disturb him that he had been under observation ; he was not accustomed to deprecate what he was , or to undervalue it . |
| 3 | Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new . |
| 4 | And he 's been under somebody or other at Charing Cross Hospital I , who has a rather different approach to the whole thing , many other people 's involve rest and doing nothing and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |